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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." ~ Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes

“Really loving this uneducated, mid-evil [sic] pitch fork carrying, burn the witch at the stake mentality though. The world needs more of that.” ~ Megan Fox #FavoriteQuotes

"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it." ~ William Faulkner #FavoriteQuotes

"In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it." ~The Reverend Mother Taraza, Conversational Record, BG File GSXXMAAT9 (Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune) #FavoriteQuotes

The “way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” ~ Parents Involved, 551 U.S. at 748 (plurality opinion). #FavoriteQuotes

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ~ Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes

“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ~ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye #FavoriteQuotes

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~ Ronald Reagan #FavoriteQuotes

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ~ James Baldwin #FavoriteQuotes

“People will do what they do.” ~ Nancy Pelosi #FavoriteQuotes

"Don’t just stand there with a stupid look on your face – do something useful with a stupid look on your face!" ~-Michael Stephen Fuchs #FavoriteQuotes

“December 23, 1776 “THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thi

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." ~Maya Angelou #FavoriteQuotes

“Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins, however tragic in its effects, that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life. “ ~Alain De Botton #FavoriteQuotes

“Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.” – Robert A. Heinlein #FavoriteQuotes

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” ~Plato #FavoriteQuotes

“Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.” ~Jean-Michel Jarre #FavoriteQuotes

"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable only to his rage." ~Plutarch #FavoriteQuotes

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship" ~ E.M. FORSTER #FavoriteQuotes

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” ~LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON #FavoriteQuotes